When Moses Hall was born on 18 June 1819, in Whitewater, Franklin Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States, his father, John Hall, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Parker, was 29. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Anna Maria Macy. He lived in Dudley Township, Henry, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 September 1871, in Henry, Indiana, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Henry, Indiana, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Historical Information 1822 - Henry, Indiana, United States
Historical Boundaries 1834: Wayne, Indiana, United States
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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